In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI_ Time Regained - Marcel Proust [257]
GUERMANTES, Princesse Marie de, née Duchesse en Bavière, known as Marie-Gilbert or Marie-Hedwige (cf. III 309). Wife of the above, sister of the Duke of Bavaria: III 36. In her box at the Opéra; her beauty and her finery: 45–49. Her elegance compared to that of her cousin the Duchesse: 62–67. Her name: 309. Her beauty and distinction praised by Charlus: 775. M invited to her house: 779. Her royal birth; the exclusiveness of her salon: 782–83. Oriane’s description of her: 801–2. Her grandeur compared to that of her husband: 802, 808–9. The soirée at her house: IV 45; her style as hostess: 47–48. Her beauty: 48–49. Her friendly welcome to M: 51–52. Conversation with M: polite banal remarks characteristic of society people: 79–80. “The kindest of women”: 117–18. Her secret Dreyfusism: 146–50 (cf. 143). Her unrequited passion for Charlus: 155–57, 431 (see also Charlus and the bus conductor: 730–39). Lack of innovation in her soirées: 198–99. Her death: VI 49.
GUERMANTES, Baron de. Friend of the Duc de Châtellerault. At Mme de Villeparisis’s: III 285.
GUERMANTES-BRASSAC, Mlle de. Niece of the Princesse de Guermantes. Rumoured to be engaged to Saint-Loup: IV 444, 673; V 596. Saint-Loup denies the rumour: VI 50.
HAIRDRESSER at Doncières; persuades the Prince de Borodino to grant leave to Saint-Loup: III 165–66.
HERWECK, M. d’. Bavarian musician introduced by Oriane to her husband at the Princesse de Guermantes’s soirée: IV 111–12.
HEUDICOURT, Zenaïde d’. Cousin of Oriane’s, discussed at dinner by the Guermantes, the Princesse de Parme and M. de Bréauté; her meanness: III 661–68.
HISTORIAN of the Fronde. See Pierre, M.
HOWSLER. The Verdurins’ head coachman; an “excellent fellow,” but melancholic: IV 398–99. Tipped by M. de Cambremer: 511–12. Victim of the machinations of Morel and the chauffeur; sacked by the Verdurins: 583–86.
HOWSLER, The elder. Brother of the above, hired as a footman by the Verdurins: IV 398–99, 583–84.
HUNOLSTEIN, Mme de, nicknamed “Petite” because of her enormous size: III 726 (cf. Montpeyroux, Comtesse de).
IÉNA, Prince and Princesse d’. Friends of Basin de Guermantes, but not of Oriane, who affects to despise their taste in furniture: I 480–81. Oriane extols them, their son and their Empire furniture to the Princesse de Parme: III 710–16. Charlus ridicules their pretensions to nobility: 774.
IMBERT, Mme, of Combray. Her asparagus: I 74–75.
ISRAELS, Sir Rufus. Jewish financier, married to Swann’s aunt: II 123–24. Owner of a house with a Le Nôtre park that had belonged to Charlus’s family: 470–71. M. Bloch claims acquaintance with him: 477, 481–82, 486. Bloch tells a story about his son: III 292–93.
ISRAELS, Lady. Wife of the above, aunt of Swann. Norpois refers (without naming her) to her campaign to ostracise Odette socially: II 51. Her wealth; Swann presumed to be her heir; jealous of Swann’s social position: 123–24. Meets, and ignores, Odette chez Mme de Marsantes: 124 (see also II 735–36). Her social position: 295. Mme de Marsantes turns against her, on account of the Dreyfus Case: III 342. Her nephew “Momo”: 519. Gilberte denies knowing her: V 790.
JOURNALISTS in the theatre: III 236; Saint-Loup strikes one of them: 239–41.
JULIEN. Françoise’s son-in-law; lives near Combray: I 72–73.
JULOT. One of the men M overhears in Jupien’s brothel: VI 51.
JULOT (“Big”). Another habitué of Jupien’s brothel, now at the front, of whom there has been no news; is he or isn’t he a ponce?: VI 52.
JUPIEN. Tailor (or waistcoat-maker) who keeps a shop in the courtyard of Mme de Villeparisis’s house; praised by M’s grandmother: I 25. A new friend for Françoise: III 14–18 (see also 450, 464; IV 527). M’s unfavourable first impression